{"product_id":"bound-by-betrayal-paperback","title":"Bound by Betrayal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCora J. Riley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTalia Costa has exactly one rule about Marchetti men: don't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe breaks it in the space of a single terrace kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario Marchetti has spent a decade making himself impossible to lose anything to - no attachments, no risk, nothing worth losing sleep over. Then Talia Costa walks into his orbit with a sharp mouth and sharper wit, and every careful principle he's built his life around goes up in flames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat starts as stolen hours and borrowed cars becomes something neither of them can keep hidden forever - not with a Costa patriarch who trusts no Marchetti soldier near his family, not with a rival suitor circling the moment he senses a rejection, and not once an unplanned pregnancy forces the truth into the open on someone else's timeline instead of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario has one fatal habit: when the pressure's highest, he reaches for strategy instead of her. Talia has one unbreakable rule: she won't be managed like a problem to solve. When his old pattern costs them everything in the one room that mattered most, there's no clever apology that fixes it - only the long, unglamorous work of actually becoming a different man, one ordinary day at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBound by Betrayal\u003c\/em\u003e is a dark, slow-burn secret-relationship romance with real jealousy on both sides, forced proximity, a hero who fails before he earns it, and a possessive, hard-won HEA. Book two of The Marchetti Vendetta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923955974451,"sku":"9798237437690","price":27.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VhAka8yUFE9798237437690.webp?v=1793828899","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/bound-by-betrayal-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}